Gordon stopped in his tracks as he noticed her fear.He threw her the tie and stretched out his hands.
“Tie me up.” Ashlyn froze as she realized what Gordon meant. She put the ornament back and buttoned her coat before picking up the tie.
When she saw that Gordon wasn’t moving, she cautiously moved toward him.
Ashlyn was feeling weak and her body seemed to be burning up.But she tried her best to tie his hands.
Once she had double checked that it was secure, she stepped back and lganed against the wall.
“It’s done,” she said.
Gordon opened his eyes at Ashlyn’s voice.He turned around and walked into the bathroom without another glance at her.
“Don’t come in.” Ashlyn didn’t answer him.
But as soon as the bathroom door closed, she fell to the floor.
The drug in her body was making her uncomfortable.She was sometimes sober and sometimes not.
When the effects of the drug wore off, she was like a drowning person who had just been saved.
The air conditioner was making her sweaty body cold.
She stood up and made her way to the bed, where she dragged the quilt off and wrapped it around herself.She settled down on the sofa and fell asleep before long.
by the bathroom, Gordon finally sobered up completely after soaking himself in cold water for a long while.
He then changed into a bathrobe before walking out to check on Ashlyn.He found her on the sofa, passed out, wrapped tightly a quilt.
Gordon sat down in the armchair beside the sofa and watched Ashlyn sleep.He thought of the messages he had read a few days ago and felt his heat fill with warmth.He hesitated for a while before he finally stood up and moved to Ashlyn’s side.He moved the hair from her face and tucked it behind her ear, revealing her oval face.His eyes fell on her lips and his eyes darkened.
He couldn’t help but lower his 1ead to kiss her lightly. It was just a light kiss, but his guilty conscience berated him as soon as he pulled back.
Aiken was right.He had told Gordon that he would regret it sooner or later.And now, Gordon was feeling the regret.
When Ashlyn finally woke up, it was already dawn.She found herself lying in the bed.
The curtains were tightly closed, making it impossible for the sunlight to get in.But once in a while, the wind blew the curtains, and a little sliver of sunlight came through.She was having a severe headache because of the pill.She reached out to grab her phone so she could check the time.
It was then that she remembered that her phone had been taken from her.
Ashlyn sat up and rubbed her temples as she tried to gather her thoughts.Her dress had been torn by Gordon the previous night.
But fortunately, her jacket had buttons, making it possible for her to cover the torn part of her dress.
But last night, her mind was in a mess, so she ended up buttoning the jacket wrongly.
The third button on the left was buttoned to the first hole on the right.She quickly corrected the buttons and got out of bed.
By now, the effect of the drug had disappeared and she no longer felt any hotness.
The air conditioner at 18 degrees Celsius now felt as it should be.
The moment she got rid of the quilt and climbed down from the bed, Ashlyn shivered a bit from the cold air of the AC.She put on the hotel slippers and walked over to the windows to open up the curtains.
Opening the curtains finally exposed the balcony to her eyes for the first time and she saw Gordon smoking outside in a bathrobe.
Just then, he turned around and looked at her.
“Good morning,” he greeted.
“Good morning.” Ashlyn nodded, glancing at the red mark on his face.
“The door is still locked,” Gordon pointed out.
“Okay.”
Ashlyn had almost forgotten that they were prisoners.
With a sigh, she made her way over to the bathroom.
A few minutes later, she was done.
When she eventually came out of the bathroom, she saw Gordon sitting on the sofa and staring at her.
“Who do you think did this to us?” he asked.
“I have no idea,” Ashlyn answered with a frown.
But it was clear that whoever had done it was very brave.
Angering both two rich and powerful families was a very risky thing to do.So, it was safe to say that the organizer of the whole thing was definitely not an ordinary person.
The person probably held a grudge against either Ashlyn or Gordon.
Concerning herself, Ashlyn could not say who from her past hated her this much.
But recently, most of her enemies were from the Jones family.She knew it could not be Denise, though.
Regardless of how stupid she could be, Ashlyn knew Denise would never do such a thing to her brother, Gordon.And neither could it be Arabella or Raina.
Raina wanted to marry Gordon.
They would be far more likely to make sure that Ashlyn and Gordon were strangers.
To be sure, those who could possibly hate Ashlyn would not even have the courage to provoke the Ramos family, not to mention offending both the Ramos family and the Jones family at once.
As far as Ashlyn was concerned, she was sure that it could not be someone who held a grudge against her.It had to be someone who hated Gordon.
With that in mind, she turned her attention to him.
“You know all the people who hate me and would dare to hurt me.”
Gordon’s face darkened as the full meaning of her statement dawned on him.
“I’ll have someone look into it.”
“Good.I feel a little cold,” Ashlyn said and picked up the remote control on the table.
“Turn it up then.”
Ashlyn turned it to 26 degrees Celsius.
The room fell silent.
Gordon looked at her, but he didn’t say anything.
Suddenly, there was a sound of movement coming from outside.
“I think they’re finally here to open the door,” Ashlyn said.
“It seems so.”
Gordon got up from the sofa and stood with his arms across his chest, awaiting whatever was going to happen.
When the door was kicked open, Ashlyn and Gordon were surprised.
The man who kicked the door was also stunned when he saw them.He thought they were a couple whose date he had ruined.
“I’m sorry,” he apologized.
With knitted eyebrows, the hotel manager turned to look at the two men who said that their cousin was going to commit suicide in the room.
“Gentlemen, your cousin…”
However, the two men behind him suddenly took out their cameras and took pictures of Gordon and Ashlyn.
Fast enough to understand what was going on, Ashlyn covered her face and hid from the cameras.
“Stop filming and give me those cameras!” Gordon ordered coldly.
The two men looked at each other for a split second and then ran away with their cameras.
With the cameras gone, Gordon turned his cold gaze to the hotel manager.
“Who locked this room last night?”
The manager didn’t know who Gordon was at first, so he wasn’t too worried.But when Gordon walked out of the room and he finally recognized him, he got so scared that he couldn’t string a couple of words together.
“Mr.Jones…”
“Are you deaf, or don’t you know how to talk?”
Gordon’s cold voice snapped the manager out of his panic.He answered, “It was not locked.I don’t know how, but it got broken.These two men came here early this morning telling us that their cousin sent them a suicide message.That’s why I came here, only to see that the lock wasn’t working.Then we kicked the door open by force.”
The manager was now looking at Gordon with apprehension and fear.
If he had unconsciously messed things up for Gordon, then he could as well start thinking of how to continue living in Courbush.He may be the hotel manager here, but he didn’t want to know what was going on in Gordon’s love life.
Seeing his boss’s reaction when they saw Gordon, the hotel staff that was close to the hotel manager thought that Gordon was just an important VIP.He picked up the bag that was at the door and said, “Sir, look at this.It might belong to the lady inside.”
The manager felt his temperature go up in that second.
Why did he have to mention it when he could have just stayed quiet? The manager had wanted to leave immediately after giving that explanation to Gordon, but now that his subordinate had opened his mouth, he didn’t know what to do.
With a frown, Gordon looked at the bag the man had picked up.He glanced at Ashlyn and then reached out for the bag.
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Loredana’s father left the family for his mistress, leaving them to fend for themselves abroad. When life was at its toughest, her father showed up with “good news” after 8 years of absence: To marry off Loredana to a paralyzed son of the wealthy Mendelsohn family.
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